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Passwords aplenty: How to stay sane as well as safe while surfing the web

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Passwords aplenty:
How to stay sane as well as safe while surfing the web
Economist.com
 
 
 
This correspondent admits to flouting the advice of security experts: his failings include using essentially the same logon and password for many similar sites, relying on easily remembered words—and, heaven forbid, writing them down on scraps of paper. So his new year’s resolution is to set up a proper software vault for the various passwords and ditch the dog-eared list.
 
Your correspondent’s one consolation is that he is not alone in using easily crackable words for most of his passwords. Indeed, the majority of online users have an understandable aversion to strong, but hard-to-remember, passwords. The most popular passwords in Britain are “123” followed by “password”. At least people in America have learned to combine letters and numbers. Their most popular ones are “password1” followed by “abc123”.
 
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Passwords aplenty: How to stay sane as well as safe while surfing the web

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Policy Building, Hard Knocks, Business Practices, Managing Information, Intellectual Property, Privacy Considerations, Data Backup and Security, Business & Vocational, Technology

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